netx: identify places where retry is beneficial

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OONI's Go net and net/http extensions for performing network measurements

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netx: identify places where retry is beneficial #7

Closed bassosimone closed 4 years ago

bassosimone commented 5 years ago

The code in probe-engine always retries. We have better code for retrying and, in addition to that, we are also well positioned to evaluate where retrying actually makes sense.

bassosimone commented 4 years ago

Reference issue: https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine/issues/88

bassosimone commented 4 years ago

Retrying makes sense when sending DNS queries. I have implemented retries.